Pastorals were some of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies on 2 May 1709.[1][2] However, the Pastorals had been written earlier, in 1704, when the author was sixteen.[1]
| Pastorals | |
|---|---|
| by Alexander Pope | |
| Rhyme scheme | Heroic couplet |
| Metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Full text | |
 Pastorals (Pope) at Wikisource | |
References
editSources
edit- Gordon, Ian (11 March 2003). "Pastorals". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- "Pastorals | work by Pope". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
Further reading
edit- Durant, David S. (1971). "Man and Nature in Alexander Pope's Pastorals". Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 11(3): pp. 469–485.